The Really Wild Show Residencies

PERMACULTURES artist residencies

Robin Bale, Shelley Parker, Julia Tcharfas and Nathan Witt have been selected from the open call for the next round of PERMACULTURES residencies.

Borrowing the title from the 1990’s children’s television show, The Really Wild Show sets out a loose framework of ‘wildness’ and its existence in spite of or resulting from technological industry. This is not only the wild-ness of the urban fox thriving off our wasted fried chicken or the explosion of marine life around the waste outfall pipes from Dungeness B. It is celebrities in the jungle and faked wild polar bear births (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/dec/12/bbc-denies-misleading-frozen-plant). It is urban Blue Tits performing an ‘avian rap’ (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6209498.stm) or “Ballard’s perverse (but tender) ecology of petrol, blood, semen, crumpled metal” (Sinclair, I, 2010, in introduction to The Unofficial Countryside by Mabey,R, 1972). And whilst we dream of a separate romantic wilderness, it is more and more apparent that nature and technology are not diametrically opposed but evolving together as part of a greater ecology.

The residencies set out to explore 'wildness' in contemporary technological culture and were selected by Elinor Morgan (Wysing Arts) and Toby Huddlestone (Crate) alongside Jim Prevett and Paul Pieroni from SPACE.

PERMACULTURES residencies are kindly supported by Arts Council England.